by IsaacApple | Jun 3, 2021 | Global African History, People
Vanessa Nakate is a Ugandan climate activist who led Uganda’s First Fridays for Future climate strikes and founded Youth for Future Africa and Rise Up Climate Movement to address climate concerns in the African continent and world at large. Nakate was born on November...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Jun 3, 2021 | African American History, People
Motivational speaker Dennis Paul Kimbro was born December 29, 1950, in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Donald Kimbro, a World War II Veteran from Bellaire, Ohio, and Mary Elizabeth Anderson Kimbro, a housekeeper from Baltimore, Maryland. He was reared in East Orange and...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Jun 3, 2021 | African American History, People
Diplomat, Historian, Poet, Frenise Avedis Logan, Sr. was born September 30, 1920, in Albany, Georgia but grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Both of his parents were educators and he had one brother. In 1938, Logan enrolled in Fisk University and participated in basketball,...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Jun 3, 2021 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
Honey Cone was an R&B female vocal ensemble based in Los Angeles, California, in 1968. The co-founders were principal singer Edna Wright along with, Carolyn Willis, and Shelly Clark. They were influenced by the doo-wop style of the late 1950s and early 1960s but...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Jun 2, 2021 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
In 1967, Edwin Reuben Hawkins, who was born on August 19, 1943, in Oakland, California and had been playing the piano at the age of five and accompanying the Hawkins family gospel group since he was seven, joined his church pianist and soprano Betty Watson of the...
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